Apple-corer.



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` ROBERT "W1=II'1`I1\TGr RIOB/DAN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

APPLE-Gonna. I

Specifica'tion of Letters Patent.

Application filed ivlarch 27, ,1918: f, jSeria1 No.224,947.

.To ZZ/whom 'it may co'ncemz:

ROBERT RIORDAN,

States, and a resil I York, borough of Brooklyn, in thecounty of Kings andState it known that II, a citizen of the United of New Yo1'k,-have inventeda new andImproved Apple-Corel, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description;

Thisrinvention relates to an apple corer,

and it has for 1ts general obj ect to provide anapplecoring device which is sodesigned that the core can be easily and quicklyre moved with a minimum waste of the fruit, this result being attained by the use of a secondary cutter in combination with an ordinary round or tubular cutter for the core, whereby the seeds and seed cavities can be removed with a minimum cutting away of the meat of the apple at the stem and blossom regions.

A more specific object of the invention is the provision of an apple corer having a secondary cutter arranged on the shank of the device at a point inwardly from the tubular cutter and mounted on a lever which is adapted to be pressed by the thumb so as to throw the Cutting edge of. the secondary cutter outwardly when the apple is adjusted on the corer to a point where the secondary cutter is registering with the seed` cavities, so that by turning the apple on the corer and simultaneously pressing on the lever, the seeds and seed cavities will be cut into small pieces which are easily removed, partly by withdrawing the corer from the apple and by washing out the core passage with a flow of water.

With such and other objects in view, the invention comprises various novel features of construction and arrangement of parts which will be set forth with particularity in the following description and' claims appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates one embodiment of the'invention and wherein similar characters of reference g indicate corresponding parts inV all the vlews,

o, Figure 1, 1s a side. vlew of Vthe device partly inserted in an apple;

Fig. 2' is a plan view showing the device inserted far enough to cut thecore;

Figp'is a view showing the device'fully insertedfin the apple, and showing the'secondary cutter'in operation for removing the seeds ;and the seed cavity walls; and

.stantially' coinoident vwith 'end of the tubular cutter,

I Fig. 4 is a section-all view ofan apple completelycored. i

Referring to the drawing, ldesignates the shank of the device, 2 thel pistoL-like handle rigidly fastene'd to the shank, and 3 the main or tubular "cutter which has a beveled cutting edge .4. The top is preferably flat and lies in av plane subthe' axis of the tubular cutter,` and pivoted on' this flat surface is a lever/G which has its frontextremityterminating adjacent the inner or rear which extremity is provided with a secondary cutter 7 which is approximately semi-circular in plan and may be serrated. The rear end of the lever terminates adjacent the handle 2 and is provided with an upstanding lug or thumbpiece whereby the thumb of the hand gripping the device can be used for throwing the cutter into and out of operative position.

In using the corer it is inserted in the apple in the usual manner or as depicted in Fig. 1, and during this insertion the apple is turned on the corer until the point of the tubular cutter passes out of the apple at the opposite side from the point of entrance. This removes a core of very small diameter so as to minimize waste of the meat of the apple. The corer is now inserted another stage to a point where the secondary blade will be in the equatorial center, and while in this position pressure is applied to the thumb-piece of the lever so as to throw the cutter outwardly from the position shown in Fig. 2 to a position approximating that shown in Fig. 3. This outward movement occurs simultaneously with the rotation of the apple, so that the seeds and walls of the seed cavities will be cut into small particles. The outward movement of the secondary cutter is continued until the cutter encounters no resistance due to the woody or horny parts of the apple. The user soon becomes accustomed as to how long to apply pressure on the lever to force the secondary cutter outwardly. For large apples the secondary cutter will be projected to a greater extent than for small apples, because of the difl'erencein the size of the seed cells. the small particles will adhere to the corer when the latter is removed, while the rest surface of the shank Part ofl ratenter. July 9, 1918;

i serifhed theZ zp'rinciiple of operation, together with the device which I now consder to be the siem-et .a :point inwafflly ffoh the -c-utter, a secondary cutter on the end of the leverndjacent the tubttlar-cutter, a handle connected with the shank, and means on the level' eat 'a point adjacent the handle7 whereby the level' can be operated to throw the seco 'ondary cuttei' into and out of operative po- RofBEeT 'Wnnme moRDA. 

